{"id":725637,"date":"2026-02-03T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725637\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:45:15","slug":"browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-surprised-by-pro-bowl-nod-says-new-coach-todd-monken-has-great-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725637\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns QB Shedeur Sanders ‘surprised’ by Pro Bowl nod, says new coach Todd Monken has ‘great vibe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an assortment of Pro Bowl opt-outs, Sanders was one of three quarterbacks to land on the AFC roster, joining Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow<\/a> and Joe Flacco<\/a>. The latter provided Sanders with a familiar face after he spent the summer and first month of the 2025 season sharing the same QB room with Flacco in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

To Sanders’ delight, Flacco — who is also making his first Pro Bowl trip in his much longer career — hadn’t changed much from September to February.<\/p>\n

“I already gained it,” Sanders said when asked what he hoped to gain from his Pro Bowl experience. “Talking to a lot of great players, seeing Joe Flacco again with the same sweatpants he wore in practice, everything. Just meeting people; it’s a great environment. I’m excited to be here. I’m thankful for it.”<\/p>\n

Sanders’ last year has been full of unexpected outcomes, starting with his fall from a first-round projection to a fifth-round selection made by the Browns. It continued when he found himself in the third place on Cleveland’s depth chart, then replaced an injured Dillon Gabriel<\/a> during the Browns’ Week 11 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, and eventually assumed the starting role<\/a> for the remainder of a season that ended with the firing of his coach, Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n

Asked to summarize his first NFL season, Sanders was concise: “Fun,” he said, putting a positive spin on Cleveland’s 5-12 finish. “It was fun.”<\/p>\n

The Colorado product might be encountering the most enjoyable portion of his NFL experience to date now, though, while surrounded by a cast of AFC all-stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an assortment of Pro Bowl opt-outs, Sanders was one of three quarterbacks to land on the AFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[1227,86,85,54,2337,7,88,6,609,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-725637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-no-minute","17":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116005353805526039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}